Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2018

°F) since pre-industrial times, holding the world to 1.5°C ” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. auto industry. Pathway two is what we’re doing now, and it sounds so tranquil and market-based. °C (1.8°F)

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Efficiency Supply Chain Energy Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 31, 2013

First we see major shifts in demand: developing economies such as China and India are morphing from the world's source of low-cost manufacturing capacity to the world's best market opportunities. Increasingly frequent natural disasters such as the Japanese tsunami have made clear how risky complex global supply chains can be.

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Globalization Supply Chain Pharmaceuticals McKinsey 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants). In these markets if existing companies don’t rise to the innovation challenge, no one will.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

An idea can change an entire industry and ideas, from kaizen to the balanced scorecard , continually transform the way we work and lead our businesses. In The Innovator's Dilemma , he looked at why companies struggle to deal with radical innovation in their markets. Second, management matters. There is nothing new in this.

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Blue Ocean Strategy Management Christensen Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Similarly, AT&T’s iconic Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, carved out entire new industries through the creation of transistors, lasers, and the programming language C++. The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Part of this story relates to the provenance, or origins, of its products: Chains that provide more upmarket “fast casual” dining such as Panera, Chipotle, and Shake Shack have brands that speak of freshness, health, and trustworthy sourcing. McDonald’s woes offers three lessons for others about supply-chain transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

These companies can help change the conversation — they have significant clout and reach, not just in Washington, but also through their extensive employee networks (millions of people), supply chains (hundreds of billions of purchasing), and marketing and social media machines (millions of tweeters).

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Policies NGO Supply Chain Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

It has tended to shred vertical supply chains, as customers can buy a wider array of stuff online cheaper, and often quicker, than in a physical store. These shifts require not just increased attention to customers by strengthening the marketing department or introducing rah-rah employee engagement programs.

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Bureaucracy Management Drucker Waterman 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

In October 2010, when its founders launched their website to the world, 25,000 web viewers overwhelmed the site. As his firm grew, he undervalued and underpaid the executives who ran the supply chain and finance departments. They are usually quick to recognize operational problems and deal with them before they become disasters.

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Operations Company Supply Chain Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

And the first company in the entire industry to provide a complete sustainability pedigree for every elevator system — showing where each and every piece of raw material came from and how much carbon was emitted in its creation and processing. It's a great project, and it was all your idea, Heinrich. I know that.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Here's my attempt to capture what I see as the most important stories affecting the greening of business in 2010. The drought in Russia destroyed 40% of its wheat crop, so Putin pulled wheat — 1/6 of the global trade in the crop — off the global market, driving up wheat prices. The market for renewables is growing fast.

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Supply Chain Retail Globalization Price 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Ok, this one is cheating a bit, but on a fundamental level, the top themes in green business haven't actually changed too much ( see the 2010 list ). From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time.

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Supply Chain Apparel P&L Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2010

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. More important, WWWabs symbolize the substantial shift in one of the dying innovation anachronisms of the post-industrial era. Think of them as part of the global supply chain. That's right.

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Innovation Supply Chain Business Simulation Advertising 16

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Businesses with dealings in China that either offend authorities or offer opportunities for industrial — or post-industrial — espionage have come under attack. Remember the May 2010 "flash crash" where the stock market plunged nearly 1000 points in a matter of moments?

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Supply Chain Contingency Plans Banking Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The SEC has recognized this point; in 2010 it issued a planning document asking publicly traded companies to disclose their climate exposure risk. A recent industry case study suggests that investors have been unaware of how past climate shocks affect corporate profitability.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

multinationals, while increasingly harassed by Beijing , have many leading market share positions in China, especially in high-tech and sophisticated capital goods such as U.S.-made Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever.

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Supply Chain Offshoring Retail Education 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. stock markets. We wanted to find out.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

The cost to build and produce solar and wind power, for example, has dropped 60%–80% since 2010 , making it cheaper than grid electricity in most states. The “clean label” movement is shaking up these industries, forcing companies to reduce ingredients and use fewer processed and artificial inputs.

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